Traveler editor-in-chief Klara Glowczewska speaks at the Readers' Choice Awards in New York City.
As she opened the Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards in New York last night, publisher Elizabeth Henriques Hughes quoted recent cover boy Matt Damon and his conviction that "if people had thick passports" the world would be a better place. Of course, Jason Bourne sought out exotic destinations largely to kill people in them, but we get what she was saying.
Still, to visit many of the places honored at the awards, readers displayed not only their thick passports but their thick wallets. The silliest of the 18 awards given out at the ceremony, held at the New York Public Library (and reference to "Sex and the City" completely intended), pitted three Four Seasons resorts against each other to determine Hawaii's best.
Four Seasons CEO Kathleen Taylor pointed out in her acceptance speech (for the Maui resort at Wailea) that all three resorts have won before--well, the readers know what they like!
After the jump, the host's embarrassing travel moments and our chat with "30 Rock" actress Katrina Bowden.]]>